Police turned over to prosecutors Wednesday their case against a 21-year-old man who walked naked on a street in Yokohama last month and a 22-year-old woman who ordered him to do so, alleging they committed acts of public indecency. The woman and the man had been living together since January. She was angry with him for not paying rent and was quoted as telling him to, “Take off your clothes” and “follow my bicycle.” (Japan Times)

A 58-year-old woman is suspected of keeping her father’s body inside a closet in their house in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, after he died there five years ago, police said Wednesday.
After the body of a man believed to be Asakichi Miyata — who would be 91 years old if alive — was found in the house, the woman told the police that her father was dead when she came home one day five years ago and that she put his body inside the closet shortly afterward, they said.
Miyata, a former banker, is believed to have been receiving a pension, and the daughter may have been living off it, according to city and police officials. (AP)

A male teacher in Saga Prefecture was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing a woman’s underwear from a self-service laundry in Fukuoka last month while dressed as a “hot blonde in a miniskirt,” police said. Tsuyoshi Hirano, 43, a teacher at a prefectural public school for the blind, has admitted to the theft charge, according to the police.
He allegedly took two pieces of female underwear from a laundromat in the city of Fukuoka at around 3 a.m. July 18. The underwear belonged to a 22-year-old woman.
The police said video from a security camera in the facility showed a man wearing a blonde wig, a camisole and a miniskirt taking underwear away. (Japan Times)

Nearly 200 Japanese centenarians are missing, officials said Thursday, with the total likely to rise amid a nationwide search after the discovery of the 30-year-old corpse of a man registered as aged 111.
In the western city of Kobe alone, the whereabouts of 105 out of 847 centenarians were unknown as of the end of July, a city official said. Those unaccounted-for include people who could be older than the current officially recognised oldest woman in Japan, 113-year-old Chiyono Hasegawa, who lives in the southern Saga prefecture.
They include one supposedly 125-year-old woman. (AFP)

There has been a series of cases lately in which local governments have been unable to confirm whether men and women registered as the oldest persons in their respective areas are actually alive.
At least 10 incidents have been discovered involving eight local governments, including the case of a woman registered as being 119 years old in Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. If alive, this woman would be the oldest person in the nation, but her whereabouts are still unknown.
All this indicates that the local governments have not taken appropriate measures to determine whether residents registered as centenarians are alive, despite having various opportunities to meet them, such as at ceremonies to present such elderly people with commemorative items. (Yomiuri)

A 113-year-old woman designated as Tokyo’s oldest person does not reside at the apartment in Suginami Ward where she is registered to live and her whereabouts is unknown, the ward office said Monday.
The woman is Fusa Furuya, who was born in July 1897, according to the ward office and police.
Ward officials visited her residence on Friday, following the discovery earlier in the week of mummified remains believed to be of a man regarded as Tokyo’s oldest man at age 111 at his home in Adachi Ward.
Furuya’s 79-year-old daughter, who ward records show lives with her, said Furuya does not live there and has not been in touch with her, according to the ward office. (AP)

A 23-year-old woman was arrested Friday on suspicion of abandoning the bodies of her two children at her apartment in the city of Osaka, police said.
Sanae Shimomura, who works at an adult entertainment shop, was quoted as telling investigators, “I got sick of feeding them and giving them a bath.”
She is suspected of leaving the bodies of her 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son late June, although she was aware that they were dead, according to the police.
While there were no wounds on their bodies, they were thin, indicating they may have died of starvation, the police said. (AP)

A 64-year-old woman from Kyoto Prefecture was confirmed dead in the derailment Friday of a tourist train carrying many Japanese sightseers in southern Switzerland, All Nippon Airways Co. said.
The woman was among 14 tourists and one guide on a tour arranged by ANA Sales Co., the airline said.
The 14 people were seven couples, mostly 50 years old or older, and were on an eight-day tour in Switzerland and were to return to Japan next Tuesday, according to the airline. (AP)

Heavy rains have killed two women in western Japan and left three people missing, local officials said Thursday, as the weather agency warned of the risk of more floods and landslides.
Police said a woman, 72, had died in a mudslide, a day after the body of a 77-year-old woman was pulled from a river, both in Hiroshima prefecture.
Torrential rains have for days battered western Japan, including Kyushu island, leaving vast areas of farmland flooded. Authorities had issued evacuation advisories for some 300,000 people as of late Wednesday. (Yomiuri)

A small percentage of Japanese housewives lose themselves in torrid love affairs. An even tinier percentage become heavily addicted to online games, a new book claims.
Writer Yuki Ishikawa tells the story of nine online gaming housewives in her book, Netoge Haijo. “Netoge” means “online games” while “haijo” means “wrecked women”. One 37-year-old woman interviewed for the book talks how she spends her entire day in pajamas (like me!) and doesn’t even bother closing the bathroom door when she sits on the throne (how embarrassing!).
“I made love to this guy (whom she had dated in an online game) on the first day I met him in real life,” says another 41-year-old online gaming housewife about a real-life grinding experience. “But actually, I instinctively had a feeling of disgust.”
The book’s angle appears to be that online gaming has made these women spend more time playing that doing household chores. (Kotaku)
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